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February 2022

9 popular JavaScript frameworks (and how to choose one for your project)

Choosing a JavaScript framework for a new project can be a daunting task. There’s always a new one getting hype from the community, while the established players still have a lot to offer. So you need to do your homework and make sure the framework you choose is the right one for your specific requirements. Popularity alone is never the best indicator, but a review of the most widely-used options should help you decide which way to go.

Synthetic testing: A definition and how it compares to Real User Monitoring

Performance monitoring is critical for a healthy software application. If you don’t have synthetic testing or real user monitoring in place, opportunities for performance optimizations are slipping through the cracks. With the guidance of a monitoring tool, on the other hand, you could be fixing problems such as slow-loading pages within the hour. The two main types of application monitoring are Real User Monitoring (RUM) and synthetic testing (or synthetic monitoring).
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What is MTTR? Resolve incidents faster through ops, alerting and documentation

When downtime strikes any distributed software deployment or platform, it's all hands on deck until the lights are green and service is restored. This process, from the recognition of a problem to a deployed solution, has most commonly been defined as MTTR - mean time to resolution. In just the last few years, DevOps and site reliability (SRE) professionals have developed sophisticated new models for how they work and audit their successes. In 2022, MTTR is one of the most widely-used software performance success metrics.

How to get the optimal image size for web

If you’ve ever started a project to improve the load times for your website, web app, or mobile app, your heart is in the right place — but your efforts might not be. For many technology leaders, the first instinct is to blame code and infrastructure. They dive deep into optimizing front-end code, scale infrastructure resources, or migrate to a new type of database-as-a-service offering that promises to process requests a few milliseconds faster.